Level of English in Colombian Higher Education: A Decade of Stagnation

This article analyzes the results of Saber Pro, state exam for students completing higher education, during 2007–2017 concerning English language section. analysis uses reports and databases from Instituto Colombiano para la Evaluación de Educación (ICFES) repository explains policy in its historical context. The warn a quite worrying picture between goals established by Ministry Education final achievements. level future Colombian professionals is not only very low but also without improvement beginnings 2007 to 2017. As conclusion, it would be necessary review, universities’ perspective, educational propose bottom-up structural alternatives that allow sustained impulse teacher training, methodology, curricular pedagogical organization.